Major Dick Winters

"I may not have been the best combat commander, but I always strove to be. My men depended on me to carefully analyze every tactical situation."

- Major Dick Winters

"I may not have been the best combat commander, but I always strove to be. My men depended on me to carefully analyze every tactical situation, to maximize the resources that I had at my disposal, to think under pressure, and then to lead them by personal example."

- Major Dick Winters

"The essential tasks of the military leader, summarized by Dick Winters: I may not have been the best combat commander, but I always strove to be. My men depended on me to carefully analyze every tactical situation, to maximize the resources that I had at my disposal, to think under pressure, and then to lead them by personal example."

- Major Dick Winters